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Running Out (2008)
How Global Shortages Change the Economic Paradigm
The shocking implications of a worldwide scarcity of natural resources have suddenly started to come clear.

Pablo Rafael Gonzalez Price range: $23.95 through $38.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Science Under Attack
The Age of Unreason
To illustrate how science is being ignored and abused, the author examines six different issues and the way they are currently discussed: evolution, dietary fat, climate change, vaccination, GMO crops and continental drift.

Ralph B. Alexander Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Science, Alchemy and the Great Plague of London
Shelley reviews the development of chemistry and medicine during the Scientific Revolution, with a special focus on the contributions and influence of the “American Philosopher” George Starkey, concluding with the dramatic account of the events…

William Scott Shelley Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Silent Winter
Our Chemical World and Chronic Illness
Approximately 45% of the adult US population now has at least one chronic illness. We are often told that these are a result of our lifestyle or our genes.

Joanna Malaczynski Price range: $19.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Affordable Care Act
A Missed Opportunity, A Better Way Forward
The U.S. offers a high standard of medical care few countries can match.

Guy Faguet Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Big Bang and Relative Immortality
Seminal Essays on the Creation of the Universe and the Advent of Biological Immortality
These philosophical essays draw their logic from the principle of continuity. Simply stated, the principle of continuity consists of three axioms: (a) Nothing cannot become something; (b) Something cannot become nothing; (c) Something cannot become something else.

Sebastian Sisti Price range: $21.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Fall of an American Rome
Deindustrialization of the American Dream
The author considers US industrial policies that have shaped today’s economic landscape and finds that, however well-intended, our polices have been misguided. Free trade was to promote world peace and democracy.

Quentin R. Skrabec Jr. Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Gene Illusion:
Genetic Research in Psychiatry and Psychology Under the Microscope
Genetic factors are increasingly presented as an important influence on psychiatric disorders, personality, intelligence, and various types of socially unacceptable behavior – as if that were an unassailable fact, proven by research.

Jay Joseph Price range: $26.95 through $34.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Missing Gene:
Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes
Genetic research in psychiatry has reached the crisis stage due to the continuing failure to identify the genes presumed to ’cause’? many of today’s most troubling mental disorders. Dr.

Jay Joseph Price range: $26.95 through $34.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Mystery of Human Aging
Surprising Insights from a Science That's Still Young
This engaging book explains the genes and the cumulative damage that drive human aging and disease, gives insights into current and future therapies for healthy aging, and provides an outlook on the future of the aging society.

Bjoern Schumacher Price range: $21.95 through $31.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Tungus Event, or The Great Siberian Meteorite
This popular science book shares the fascination of the Tungus Event, a major mystery of the 20th century, in a factual and informed way.

John Engledew Price range: $21.95 through $31.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Thoreau Overlooked
The Fourth Cape Cod Excursion Journal, 1857
Discover a hidden gem of American nature writing with Thoreau Overlooked: The Fourth Cape Cod Excursion Journal, 1857 , meticulously edited and annotated by lifelong Cape Codder James H. Ellis.

James H. Ellis Price range: $9.95 through $19.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page